What is a loundroom? I just saw it mentioned by an Australian, as describing a house. I'm guessing it's a living room? Google seems to agree that's it a word, but otherwise isn't being too helpful in telling me what it is.

Quick followup; is 'loundroom' even an actual term for it? Just double checking since you used lounge room in the reply, which I did recognize.

Where did you see it written that way? My guess would be that it's a typo.

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On of the things I have noticed is that here and in Oz, it is a lounge. No room. It would be like saying 'a kitchen room'. It might be a sitting room, or a drawing room, or a family room, but not a lounge room. One of those language oddities

On of the things I have noticed is that here and in Oz, it is a lounge. No room. It would be like saying 'a kitchen room'. It might be a sitting room, or a drawing room, or a family room, but not a lounge room. One of those language oddities

I tend to say lounge room.

More likely to say I'm sitting on the lounge (ie, the couch/sofa) than going into the lounge.

On of the things I have noticed is that here and in Oz, it is a lounge. No room. It would be like saying 'a kitchen room'. It might be a sitting room, or a drawing room, or a family room, but not a lounge room. One of those language oddities

I tend to say lounge room.

More likely to say I'm sitting on the lounge (ie, the couch/sofa) than going into the lounge.

Everyone I know says lounge room. You sit ON the lounge IN the lounge room.

On of the things I have noticed is that here and in Oz, it is a lounge. No room. It would be like saying 'a kitchen room'. It might be a sitting room, or a drawing room, or a family room, but not a lounge room. One of those language oddities

In South Africa it's almost exclusively a lounge (no "room"), and it's never really a sitting room, or a drawing room or anything other than a lounge.

But we don't call large couches "lounges". They're either couches or settees.

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On of the things I have noticed is that here and in Oz, it is a lounge. No room. It would be like saying 'a kitchen room'. It might be a sitting room, or a drawing room, or a family room, but not a lounge room. One of those language oddities

In South Africa it's almost exclusively a lounge (no "room"), and it's never really a sitting room, or a drawing room or anything other than a lounge.

But we don't call large couches "lounges". They're either couches or settees.

In England, in my experience the furniture item concerned is occasionally called a couch, but nearly always a sofa or a settee. The English tendency toward class-based snobbery comes into play here. Patrician types always talk about "sofas", and regard "settee" as a lower-middle-class, gauche, "non-U" term. On this matter, you lot out in the Empire plainly haven't got a clue ...